Final working designs

This is a general guide on how you can make the most out of the final working product in order to achieve the best outcome.

Now that you have completed your design, is it ready for real world application. The simple answer is no! The design may be ready but we are blissfully unaware how effective it would be in a real world application. So what now?!

Design with Ease

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs

So now that you have a working prototype of the product you can progress into the next phase of the design process which is the test and evaluate phase.

Testing and evaluation phase.

Though testing and evaluation is listed as the final phase of the design thinking process, the design thinking process is actually a malleable process and each of the phases can occur at anytime during the process. This being said, in order to test and evaluate a design you need a design to test first and this is crucial to understand. You want to be able to present your test group with something that you are considering publishing. The reason why we provide a test group with our designs is so that we can gauge their experience with the product, Both the good aspects where we have excelled and the bad aspects where things that we may perceive as redundant take away from the users experience of the product.

Stun your consumers

“Good design is like a refrigerator when it works, no one notices, but when it doesn’t, it sure stinks.” Irene Au

During the testing phase it is usually advisable to give the test group not only your product but also those of your direct competitors in order to gauge the users thought of your product versus their experience with your direct competitors. This way you are able top get a more detailed response form your test group.

After testing has been concluded you want to evaluate their experience and this can be done in a multitude of ways but is usually advisable to make use of a combination of methods. Some methods include user experience surveys, interviews and user feedback.

Using the data collected

Now that you have your data collected from your users, compile it and compare it. Take the data and start a new iteration of the design thinking process and repeat as many times as you want until you are happy with the result.

Good luck!